RAPIDS Series 6: Standoff and Glide

What are some of the benefits of using Standoff and Glide Weapons to accomplish Commander objectives?

• launched from greater ranges, programed for multiple stages / actions, lower risk to aircraft

• Low collateral damage but requires closer range to target

• Cheap and precise when equipped with JDAM kits

• Can use multiple guidance systems but always needs satellite signal

This glide missile consists of 145 BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb (CEB) submunitions (cluster bomb). These bomblets have a shaped charge for armor defeating capability, a fragmenting case for material destruction. It is used to attack fixed and relocatable soft targets such as parked aircraft, trucks, armored personnel carriers and surface-to-air missile sites. What is the name of this weapon?

• AGM 154C JSOW C

• AGM 154B JSOW B

• AGM 154A JSOW A

• AGM 154D JSOW D

This version of the AGM 154 JSOW carries two 500 lbs warheads. It is designed to strike with a shaped augmenting warhead to breach the hard exterior of a target and follow through with an additional bomb. What is the variant of this JSOW?

• AGM 154D JSOW D

• AGM 154C JSOW C

• AGM 158 JASSM

• AGM 158C LRASM

What is the name of this missile?

• AGM 154A JSOW A

• AGM 65 MAVERICK

• AGM 84 SLAM ER

• AGM 158 JASSM

This Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response is an air-launched, day/night, adverse-weather, over-the-horizon, precision strike missile. It is capable of attacking land and sea targets medium to long range (over 155 nautical miles). What is the name of this missile?

• AGM 114 HELLFIRE

• AGM 158 LRASM

• AGM 154 A JSOW A

• AGM 84 SLAM ER

This powered air-to-surface missile designed for strikes at long range against various targets. It is essentially a rocket-boosted version of the GBU-15 bomb, with the rocket motor increasing the launch range and so giving the launch aircraft protection from whatever defenses may protect the target. What is the name of this missile?

• AGM 130

• AGM 154 A JSOW A

• AGM 142 POPEYE

• AGM 176 GRIFFIN

This missile can carry a BLU 109 2,000 lbs penetrator. Its rocket boost system allows it to fly at faster speeds and enables greater range. What is the name of this weapon?

• BLU 82 Daisy Cutter

• AGM 130

• AGM 65 Maverick

• TLAM D

This Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile is an autonomous, precision standoff missile. Its stealthy design and low-observable airframe is designed to defeat various targets, including enemy air defenses. Its extended range variants can strike targets over 600 miles away. What is the name of this standoff missile?

• AGM 158 JASSM

• AGM 158C LRASM

• AGM 130

• AGM 154 JSOW

You are assigned to a coalition task force planning to strike a series of targets inside an adversary's IADS network. Intelligence assesses high risk to coalition aircraft. What options exists below to lower risk to the coalition air group?

• Use unguided munitions only

• Use LGB and Clusters

• Use Standoff and Glide weapons

• Use Air to Air Missiles to defeat the air threat

What is the name of this missile?

• AGM 158C LRASM

• AGM 130

• AGM 88 HARM

• AGM 114 Hellfire